To Lloyd Charles , please ask the guys with the foliar sprays to contact me and we may be able to help them in this area - Hunter valley thanks Ross McDonald ----- Original Message ----- From: Lloyd Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 8:15 AM Subject: Re: Austr. Workshop/ Was there a higher purpose?
> > > Dear James, et. al., > > > . Both are studying > > their asses off learning all they can as fast as they can. It won't be > that > > much longer and they won't need me any more. It gives me a good feeling. > > > > I'll admit I'm not comfortable with the idea of going head to head in the > > marketplace with the chemical ag boys. They've got hundreds of billions if > > not trillions of dollars worth of muscle to lean on us with, and we are > > still in the pusilanimous thousands and tens of thousands. So I think we'd > > better keep our heads down a bit longer and not get them to take us > > seriously. > > > Dear Hugh - James > I have a friend who was a farmer until two years ago when he sold out to go > a new direction selling foliar fertiliser. He and I and a couple of other > guys started out several years ago using this hotmix trace element foliar > and seed treatment brew - I was the first in this area and encouraged the > others based on results I'd seen. It was a good first step away from > conventional thinking and the company behind it is using Albrecht logic in > their approach to fertilising and they are getting good results. Recently > these guys have moved into viticulture and have managed to snare a couple of > the big names in our area simply by getting better quality grapes - and boy > has that annoyed the conventional agronomy people - my mate has had these > company guys following him - waiting a couple of hours after he leaves the > client farm then going in to badmouth all the information he gave the > farmer. One company has devised a contract that they have fooled some > farmers into signing - a combination of cheap finance for purchases and low > fees for crop monitoring with a sneaky little clause that says that the > farmer agrees not to use anything not recommended and sold by that company - > my mate has hardly started but he's made the opposition mad as hell > already - you can bet they will have a lot of dirty tricks left yet - up to > and including direct sabotage of some of his clients crops if thats what it > takes. He could not possibly have done them serious damage yet but they see > a clear threat and are acting accordingly, this is only > LOCAL sales companies yet - not the big boys! > > I think Hugh is entirely correct to say keep our heads down and not make > them take us seriously - there are a lot of receptive people out there - > anybody doing cell grazing is a prospect - farmers are turning up in droves > to eco farmer seminars, phil wheeler , arden andersen, gary zimmer, we could > probably do a repeat of Hugh's tour next year and get the same sort of > attendance as recently - they're out there, some of em are ready and some > not. > Cheers all, > Lloyd Charles > >
